This Week In Photography Books – David Maisel

by Jonathan Blaustein Imagine if hamsters were self-aware. Wouldn’t that be strange? The first hamster to achieve consciousness would be a hero. Then he’d whisper in all the other hamsters’ ears: we’re going to die. (You know he would.) For a while, all of hamsterdom would be in an uproar. We don’t want to die, they’d […]

Boris Mikhailov at FOAM

by Jonathan Blaustein You’re in a museum, in a foreign country. Your brain has been inundated with massive amounts of new information. This is not unusual. Travel makes you smarter, as does art. Still, you’ve been on the road for days, and everything is starting to look the same. You visit a famous photo museum […]

This Week In Photography Books – Dash Snow

by Jonathan Blaustein I was sitting on my porch the other day, chatting with a friend. He’s a wicked smart photographer, and has had a good bit of success, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. The ideas were flying rather quickly as we sat, rocking in our rocking chairs, killing black and red ants as they explored […]

This Week In Photography Books – Stefan Olah

by Jonathan Blaustein Everything’s bigger in Texas, and Americans love their cars. How’s that for mashing two stereotypical truisms into one. It’s like a mixed metaphor, only better. (Like if you kill two birds with one stone, you might cry over spilt milk. Poor little birds. They never hurt anyone. What’s wrong with you? Killing […]

This Week In Photography Books – Ed Ruscha

by Jonathan Blaustein Just because someone says something, doesn’t make it true. We know this. (And its corollary: don’t trust everything you read on the Internet.) We know this, and yet almost always choose to give people the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes, it’s more appropriate to call bullshit. Take Ed Ruscha, for instance. I […]